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title: And Suleiman-bin-Daoud, still looking after the Butterflies where th… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: And Suleiman-bin-Daoud, still looking after the Butterflies where they played in the sunlight, said, ‘O my Lady and Jewel of my Felicity, when did this happen? Who acts: Suleiman, Lord, this. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly That Stamped, with its dependency tree and
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# Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 149

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And Suleiman-bin-Daoud, still looking after the Butterflies where they played in the sunlight, said, ‘O my Lady and Jewel of my Felicity, when did this happen?

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**Who acts:** Suleiman, Lord, this · **What happens:** look, play, say, happen · **To what, where:** sunlight · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly That Stamped. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Suleiman, Lord, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2781:13:149
# text = And Suleiman-bin-Daoud, still looking after the Butterflies where they played in the sunlight, said, ‘O my Lady and Jewel of my Felicity, when did this happen?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
2	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	Jewel	Jewel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	Felicity	felicity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
33	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	nsubj	_	_
35	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund | Suleiman *not said here* |  |  |  | after the Butterflies; still |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **play** | past | Lord |  |  | the sunlight |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Suleiman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **happen** | past · do-support | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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